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Musings on the Motoring World

Gemballa Marsien reimagines Porsche’s legendary 959 Dakar car

Uwe Gemballa may not be with us, but his son, Marc Philipp, continues his legacy of creating mad Porsches for the unreasonably rich. And his first creation from his newly-formed eponymous company certainly fits the bill. Called the Gemballa Marsien, it is a 551kW love letter to the 1980s 959 Dakar rally car.  French for ‘Martian’, […]

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Porsche 992 911 GT3 adopts the ultimate racy wing

If you drink from the Porsche mythos well, there are only two things on the calendar that matters. The launch of a new 911, and the launch of its GT3 variant. The rest might as well be white noise echoing out into the void. And so, here we are in what would have been Geneva […]

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Remembering the 991-generation 911

Considering that we have walked on the moon, overcame the consumption, and synthesize materials that will outlast our own collective existence, it is rather galling that we as a species are often given to the side of pessimism. A remnant of our Cro-magnon survival mechanism it may be, pessimism has not only ensured that our […]